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SOUVENIR OF 


LIBERTY AND VICINITY 


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PUBLISHED BY 

OTTO HILLIG, Photographer 


LIBERTY, NEW YORK • ■ :".;:.•;: ' 



Two Copies Received 

AUG 8 1903 

C«py"6fi< E.""> 
CUkSSO '^ XXc No. 

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COPY B. 








The pictures reproduced in this book are halftone 






enj^ravinKS made from original photographs by Otto 






Hillig. This bodk will be sent postpaid to any address 






upon receipt of twenty-five cents. 






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HiLLiG's Photo Studio 






Liberty, N. y. 











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Copyright ig05, by Ono Hillig, Liberty. N. Y. 



LIBERTY, NEW YORK 



THIS village is located in the geographical center of Sullivan County, on the highest point reached by 
the Ontario iS: Western RaiKva\', one hundred and nineteen miles from New York City, and in the 
extreme southwestern part of the Catskills, which end here in a series of forest-clad and cottage-crowned 
buttes, known as Walnut Mountain, Round Top, Liberty Heights, Sumac Point, Mount Pisgah, etc. Their 
summits can be seen from the village, which is scarcely twn miles away, and whose suburbs they properly are. 

The altitude of the village and suburbs varies from one thousand six hundred to two thousand four 
hundred feet, affording what well-traveled people declare to be the finest, most varied and most extensive views 
to be found east of the Mississippi. From Walnut Mountain, — the lone giant sentinel of the Catskills, on 
whose charmed slopes Liberty hangs like a chosen jewel, — the eye sweeps a complete circle whose horizon is 
from twenty to forty miles distant, embracing many a humble hamlet and mirroring lake. It is truly nature's 
favorite window. 

Within tv\o miles of the village is Revonah Lake, fed by underground springs, the highest lake in the 
state, from which Liberty draws her matchless water supply for her model water works system. Lake Ophelia, 
on the edge of the village, furnishes all kinds of amusements — dancing, boating, fishing, etc. Swan Lake, four 
miles distant, affords as fine pickerel fishing as can be found anywhere; while as to game — "the woods are 
full of "em." 

Liberty also boasts of a modern sewerage system, electric lights, three fire companies and houses, opera 
house, bank, excellent school, six churches, three newspapers, fine stores of all kinds, a resident popuLation of 
two thousand and a summer population of ten thousand. The village abounds in some of the finest hotels and 
boarding houses to be found outside of New York City; also, pretty residences, scores of which are owned by 
New York people, who spend their summers here because it is their ideal of a beautiful, healthful and enjoy- 
able resort. 




ilierty \ illane- - l.uokinK West 




Kerndale — showing Kailruad Bridge 




Liberty Village — Looking North 




Reservoir — Walnut Mountain in the Distance 








Witch Rock on Walnut Mountain 
Notice the human profile in the ruck 




Walnut Mountain and R(jund Top from Loomis Sanitarium 
Elevation. 2.442 feet 




Loomis Saiutaimm liuiii Walnut Mountain 




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Lake Uphelia — View truni below the Station 



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Mill Falls at Ferndale 




Lake Ophelia — About Five Minutes Wall< from the Village 




Cattail Falls — Six Miles from Liberty 




Liberty Falls — View lieluw Turning Mill 







Mam Mreet in Winter 







Private Residence of Mr. A. A. Smith in Neversink — Six Miles from Liberty 




\ lew trom Walnut Mountain — Looking Southeast 




LilH-rty from Hntel Wawcinda 



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I'aiiuiaiua of Liberty from Hotel Du Nord 




Panorama of White Lake — Ten Miles from Liberty 




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